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Alternate cover editions here and here. Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.
This is so intense from the very beginning. I love books that drop you right into the action.
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This didn't feel like a 400+ page book at all. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time tbh.
0One of King's best and most horrifying character studies creates the indominable madwoman Annie Wilkes, a character which haunts us all in the shape of Kathy Bates to this day. The book is far more intense than the film in the best possible way. Absolutely recommend to fans of violent, bombastic psychological horror.
0Do you know what makes Misery one of King's scariest novels? Scarier than vampires, scarier than little girls who can set things on fire with their minds, scarier than cars that are alive and kill people, scarier even than clowns in storm drains...
Crazy people are real, ya'll!
Psychos are alive and well and living in that cute little bungalow down the street with the gnomes in the flower bed. Annie Wilkes is real and you walked past her at the grocery store the other day. Or maybe she was filling Old Bessie up on the other side of the gas pump today while you were putting $12 in your Camry's tank.
Luckily for you, she isn't your number one fan.
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